Saturday, February 2, 2008

New Soul - Yael Naim

Yael Naim was born in Paris in 1978 to Sephardi-Jewish parents. At the age of four, she moved with her family to Ramat HaSharon, Israel, where she spent her childhood and learned how to speak Hebrew. She served in Israel Defence Forces as a soloist in the Israel Air Force Orchestra.[1] She began her singing career with a part in the musical "Les Dix Commandements"[2][3] and her first solo album, In a Man's Womb, was released in 2001. She also sang the song "You Disappear" by Bruno Coulais for the film Harrison's Flowers directed by Elie Chouraqui. For her early work she was credited simply as Yaël.Naim joined forces with percussionists David Donatien and Jon Reid, and over a period of two years they arranged and recorded thirteen of Naim's songs in a studio in Naim's apartment in Paris,[4] and these were released as her second album, Yael Naim, in 22 October 2007 on the Tôt ou tard label. The songs are in French, English, and Hebrew and received critical acclaim,[2] and the album entered the French album chart at No. 11 the week after its release. The style has been described as having a touch of folk and a touch of jazz, with mysterious and evocative words sung with a delicate and intentionally slightly husky voice.[5] In January 2008, her song "New Soul" was featured in the debut commercial for the MacBook Air laptop. The song gained fame from being featured in the ad[6]. Owing to high U.S. digital sales, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart week of 16 February 2008 at #9, becoming Naim's first U.S. top ten single. On 5 February 2008 her song "Far Far" from the self-titled album was released as a free download on Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store.

New SoulI'm a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take.But since I came hereFelt the joy and the fearFinding myself making every possible mistake

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

I'm a young soul in this very strange world hoping I could learn a bit about what is true and fake.But why all this hate?Try to communicate.Finding trust and love is not always easy to make.

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

This is a happy end cause' you don't understand everything you have done why's everything so wrong

This is a happy end come and give me your hand I'll take your far away.

[Refrain]:I'm a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and takeBut since I came here felt the joy and the fear finding myself making every possible mistake